"Young master, the fat man went to the west of the city, should we continue to follow?"

It wasn't until he got out of the investment hall and got the embodiment of the housekeeper that Yang Shen found that he was infected by the fiery atmosphere and unconsciously followed the fat man and others out. 【】

"Anyway, it's all coming out, so let's just follow it to the end." Yang Shen shook his head and couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

In fact, the food processing zone is just an ordinary corner of the investment hall, compared to this relatively novel industry, such as textiles, processing, assembly and other industries are the most popular. The latter are relatively traditional, easier to understand, or have already seen examples, and businessmen are naturally more willing to participate.

However, it is such a popular food processing area, and the degree of popularity has already amazed Yang Shen, and it is self-evident how popular the popular industries that he has not paid attention to will be.

Therefore, since it has come out, Yang Shen does not have the intention of going back to the hall to continue to observe, but intends to grasp a typical, from beginning to end, you can also have a comprehensive understanding of the situation in Tianjin, although Yang Caizi does not understand statistics, but he still has no teacher to understand the typical tracking research method.

When he entered the city, Yang Shen didn't pay much attention to it, and when he followed the fat man, he found that the city had changed a lot.

All the yamen followed in the footsteps of the General Military Office, and looking at the direction, the patent office they were heading to was the original Qing Military Hall. Since the General Military Office and the Qing Military Department are already like this, others, such as the Military Preparation Road and the Household Division, must have also been transformed into other institutions.

The houses have not changed much, but most of the side facing the street has been converted into a gatehouse, and there are signs hanging at the door, or inns, or wine shops, and even some places are facing a façade, but there are several signboards, except for the main store, most of the rest are warehouses and houses for rent.

Since the second half of last year, they have also seen the dynamics of the new yamen clearly, and they have all smelled the business opportunities in the new policy, so they have also grasped the opportunities in their own way.

Today's Tianjin City, although it has not changed much on the surface, in fact, it is developing rapidly in an unknown direction. At least for Yang Shen, neither his knowledge nor his housekeeper's experience is enough for him to predict what the future of Tianjin will be.

However, even if he can't make a prediction, he can see the situation in front of him clearly, from the eager eyes of the merchants, the joy of the people arriving at their destination, the joy of their wishes, and the attitude and attitude of those new officials to treat people and things, Yang Shen saw the people's aspirations, and also saw the hope that the new deal brought to the Ming Dynasty.

He was very confused, and there were bad comments about Xie Hong's new policy and various measures, even his always gentle father Yang Tinghe, and the wisest Ming first assistant Li Dongyang were full of vigilance against him.

The elders are like this, after he arrived in the capital, he was also affected a lot, this time he came to Tianjin, he also reported the mood of bravely entering the tiger's den and outwitting the enemy.

But after arriving in Tianjin, what he saw and heard told him that there was no conspiracy here.

Some are just a group of officials who are strange to him, and these people can't see the superiority of the traditional bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty at all; A group of merchants he had never seen before, and the faces of these people did not have the groveling of ordinary merchants; There were also thousands of poor people who told him that the Hongzhi Zhongxing, which had been praised in Shilin, was a lie!

Now it has been less than a month since the news was released, and the number of poor people who can rush here is probably less than one-tenth of the total, and the number of such a huge number of poor people is only in Hebei and Shandong provinces.

The world of ZTE? Spirit?

For thousands of years, there have been many theories about what kind of world can be called prosperous, and the standards are different. Generally speaking, the general prosperity will appear in the founding of the country, from chaos to the time of governance, often the government will be clear, the wealth of the people is also abundant, and the social atmosphere will be very good.

However, if the skin is thick enough, when the Southern Song Dynasty was in a corner of peace, in order to whitewash the peace, Song Gaozong also called it a prosperous era. If he was more shameless than Song Gaozong, Yang Shen wouldn't know, because that hadn't happened yet.

The widows and widows of the Braided Dynasty in later generations also advocated a prosperous era, that is, the 'Kangqian Prosperous Era' in the literary prison every year and starving people to death every day, no matter how shameless the Chinese people are, they are always no match for these barbarians, because they have no face for such a thing.

Of course, in the heart of Yang Shen, a Confucian disciple, there is still a standard, as contained in the "Book of Rites", Confucius once said: "Let the old have an end, the strong have a use, the young have a growth, and the widows, widows, loneliness, and the sick are all supported." This is the world of great harmony in the hearts of Confucian sages.

Isn't that exactly what Tianjin is doing? Merchants were organized through commerce, and landless peasants and destitute people were provided with jobs through industry, so that they could support their families. At the same time, in Liaodong, on the three sides, what Xie Hong is doing is not exactly to enable the cultivators to have their fields and the dwellers to have their places?

And, in the same words of the sage Confucius, what is benevolence? It's very simple, be virtuous in government, be generous to the people, and be gracious.

In the Tianjin officials, Yang Shen saw benevolence, from Sichuan to Jiangnan, and then from Jiangnan to the capital, except for Tianjin, how could he have seen such an attitude in the officials? You know, they are dealing with a group of businessmen, a group of people with the lowest social status.

In the concrete measures of the New Deal, he saw leniency, and the people who came from the two provinces were almost the same as refugees, but after arriving in Tianjin, they were received much more than refugees, as evidenced by the rows of houses outside.

Although the houses were a little rudimentary, they were good enough for the people, and besides, according to the clerks, when the workers were called up, they would first build the dwellings outside the city, and then the roads.

The worries of the people first, Yang Shen felt that this seemed to be a higher level than Fan Xianggong's worries and worries of the world, the former is real, and the latter is an empty lyricism.

Finally, if the scribe of the China Merchants Bureau had not lied, the Tianjin Yamen would have given more than that, providing new technologies to the merchants through the Patent Office, and providing them with all kinds of conveniences to create wealth with them, which was much more clever and practical than mere scattered wealth.

If you scatter wealth, with such a population in the Ming Dynasty, no matter how much wealth you have, it is not enough, and it is likely to raise a group of parasites, after all, people are all easy and hard-working. Therefore, it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, and what Tianjin Yamen has done is exactly this.

The wisdom and bearing contained in the leopard are amazing.

It is under the leadership of Xie Hong's incomparable wisdom and unprecedented courage that today's Tianjin is moving towards a glorious and prosperous era that the Confucian sage once longed for and longed for, at least, in Yang Shen's opinion.

However, the seniors and colleagues in the capital have the opposite view on this, who is wrong? Yang Shen was very distressed, and the noisy opinions in Shilin all said that Xie Hong had annihilated great evil, and the current new deal was just a hypocrisy, but he couldn't see it anyway, where is the hypocrisy of Xie Hong's new deal?

Unless...... He raised his eyes and looked ahead, in front of him was the original Qing Army Hall, and now the Patent Office, if Xie Hong was really a hypocrite, then I am afraid that the only ones who might hide the trap were here and the Tax Office.

The technology is Xie Hong's, and he may ask for dry shares or charge high patent fees based on this; Otherwise, when there is a harvest, the merchants will be taxed heavily, after all, the Ming Dynasty originally did not have a commercial tax system, and he could do whatever he wanted.

However, this is just a possible surname, from the point of view of reason, Yang Shen does not think that Xie Hong will do this kind of trick of killing chickens and taking eggs, it is too far-sighted.

But he really hoped that the other party would do this, because only if the other party did this, could he prove that his seniors were right, compared to Xie Hong, who had never met, and even the businessmen and people he saw in front of him, for Yang Shen, those talents who have been admired since he was a teenager are more important, this is almost a kind of faith, how can it collapse easily?

With extremely complicated feelings, Yang Shen followed behind Bao Fatzi and others and entered the patent office.

There are relatively few people in the patent office, and those who come here want to do business, while the China Merchants Bureau includes many businessmen or those who want to do maritime trade. Not everyone has the confidence and patience to open a workshop to make money, and in the eyes of many people, businessmen should do business with one hand in and one hand out.

Although there were fewer merchants, the clerks were more or less the same, and in the hall, along the wall opposite the door, there was a row of tables and chairs, and behind them sat a dozen scribes, and on the tables were all kinds of name plates.

There were two people standing in front of one of the tables, it was the two people Yang Shen had just seen in China Merchants who were going to open a cannery, and the fat man also saw it, so they swarmed around him.

Although they are nodding friends, they are also acquaintances after all, and under normal circumstances, the two of them will greet each other, but Yang Shen clearly saw that the eyes of the two people looked at the scribe for a moment, and they didn't notice the movement beside them at all.

I don't know if their appearance infected the latecomers, after the fat man and others surrounded him, he soon became the same, as if he didn't surround a few people, but someone moved a few sculptures over.

Obviously, what the scribe was talking about was very important, and these merchants had a stake in them, which was why they were so nervous. Although they were all listening with bated breath, Yang Shen could feel the irrepressible excitement from their occasional rolling eyes and the sound of heavier and heavier breathing.

"Your Excellency, do you mean...... If there is an exclusive technology, can we also apply for a patent? And then after someone else learns through the patent office, they have to give us silver, no, is it a patent fee? This is not something that can only be ...... by Hou Ye" When Yang Shen walked over, the scribe's explanation had just come to an end, and one of the two people before was hesitating to ask questions.

"The patent office is the patent office of the Ming Dynasty, here, only talk about technology, not about identity, whether it is a peddler pawn, or a prince general, as long as you have a skill, as long as you trust the patent office, the patent office will protect your technology, so that it can be used by the people of the world at the same time, but also for the creation of technology to bring harvest."

The scribe was also smiling, but the words were sonorous, even Yang Shen felt a little agitated in his chest when he heard it, and those businessmen who were closely related to him had already heard their eyes red, excited and yearning.

"In fact, the technology provided by Hou Ye has never brought him any gains personally, and the money has to go into the treasury." The scribe waved his hand, pointed to the outside of the city, and said: "Everyone should have seen the dwellings outside the city, if there is no suitable dwelling, how can the workers have the energy to work, and what does the work of the workers bring?" It is your profit. ”

"The roads, the canals, the wharves and the trading halls are all built for you and are built before you start earning your taxes and paying royalties. Now it is only one place in Tianjin, and the whole world will do the same in the future...... This is what is taken from the people, and used for the people, there is such a son of heaven, there is such a marquis, it is the luck of our Ming people! ”

"Yes, what the lord said is right, our marquis is no matter how merciful he is, and our emperor is the most holy." The fat man was the first to shout.

"That's right, I'm waiting to be taught, my lord, there is a family heirloom skill below, I don't know ......" The others also responded, and a few people were eager to dedicate their family heirloom skills.

After listening to the scribe's explanation, the merchants also understood that it was not necessarily the craftsmanship of making treasures such as music boxes that was called technology, and many of the techniques were also derived from life experience.

Huaxia has always taken the family as the basic unit of inheritance, and for thousands of years, although it has gone through turmoil, there are countless experiences and skills that can be passed down. In the past, due to the limitation of concepts, of course, no one would take it out to communicate with people, but when they arrived in Tianjin, after getting to know the patent office, the businessmen were also moved.

"My lord, I also have it in my family, and I am willing to follow the example of Lord Hou and donate my skills for free!" The atmosphere began to be warm, I don't know who shouted the first time, and the wave of free donations also rose.

"That's not going to work." The benefit of the free donation was even greater, but the scribe smiled and shook his head, and rejected the merchant's offer.

"Why not? Is there anything wrong with me emulating the wise deeds of the Hou Ye? Otherwise, why would you stand in the way? The fat man pointed at the scribe's nose and roared.

His family also has a secret job, but it is not much of a skill, just the ability to cook, with this skill to profit, he feels a little unhappy, if it is donated for free, it will be different, not only to help the Hou Ye and the emperor, but also to carry forward their own craft, of course it is a good thing.

"You are different from Hou Ye, Hou Ye is a trilateral general system, the champion of the Ming Dynasty, he is the court of Lu, of course he has to contribute to the court, how can he use public weapons for his own benefit? But you are ordinary people, it is not easy to save some belongings, the emperor is merciful, how can you bear to let you suffer losses, as long as you pay business taxes according to the law, it is a great support for the Son of Heaven and the court. ”

Seeing that there was still injustice on everyone's faces, the scribe smiled slightly, "This is what the Hou Ye said personally, and then formed an order to spread the order to the three sides, Tianjin and the Ivy Academy, and the students of the academy are also in the next place, of course, they must be awe-inspiring." ”

The businessmen hadn't reacted yet, but Yang Shen suddenly felt that his face was hot, his heart was ashamed, and he was no longer in the mood to continue listening, but turned his head and hid his face and left, holding the imperial court, so he couldn't make profits for himself? The one who says this, and does it, will be a destroyer?

Yang Shen felt a soft 'click' in his heart, as if something was broken.

(To be continued)